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    Default No wonder foreign types get confused

    This would just about make my day at rush hour.

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    I'm not a motorist (yet), but couldn't they have just made it into one big roundabout and forget all the small ones?
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    Default Re: No wonder foreign types get confused

    That is absolutely preposterous. As Marcellus says, what's the point of it? One big one would be perfectly adequate.

    Also, if I'm reading this right, you drive anti-clockwise on the central section? That's a recipe for disaster.
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    England seems to have thing about roundabouts as it is, and Holland is steadily getting worse in that regard. But this really takes the biscuit. Quite a large number of them, in fact.
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    Default Re: No wonder foreign types get confused

    Seeing all those roundabouts confused me when I first came to this country...

    ...but this is just beyond imagination..!
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    We seem to be losing roundabouts up here in Scotland. There was a hellish roundabout junction over not far from Cumbernauld, but they are doing it up and making an over-pass thingy instead, with a plethora of slip roads.
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